Example sentences of "go [adv prt] [coord] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We knew that little boys would be going up and down the platform singing out ‘ Banbury cakes !
2 But instead of a hosereel going up and down the field , you have a tractor and an injector . ’
3 I like watching her going up and down the baths .
4 Worst of all , one auxiliary , feeding a number of people , was going up and down the rows of bowls on bed-tables with one spoon which she filled from each person 's bowl and put into each person 's mouth before going onto someone else with the same spoon to repeat the process .
5 It also has a very attractive promenade and a small harbour from where boats set off to go up and down the lake .
6 She started to go up and down the ladder , carrying the straw .
7 The Farmer goes up and down the rows ‘ watering ’ the ‘ plants ’ and chanting :
8 Our Father went up and down the aisle with a microphone , leading the singing in a tuneless baritone which boomed from a loudspeaker at the front of the bus .
9 Then he went up and down the room holding a walking stick , just like the old gentlemen who walked in the streets .
10 For days he backed the little transport box into the huge mound and went up and down the fields in lines , stopping the tractor every few yards to scatter the lime , tossing each shovelful on the wind for the white dust to be blown out over the grass .
11 There was a typewriter involved too and as the lift went up and down the typewriter 's bell tinkled metallically .
12 This roller skated juggler went up and down the overlay several times whilst juggling .
13 They 'd search the glass-tip , the marl-hole , the brickyard , and they 'd go up and down the canal tow-path , looking under the bridges .
14 Fly to Brittany , take the boat down to Nice , go up and down the coast , then the Adriatic or other parts of the Med .
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